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dexter wrote:I have reports from several people who have done this from the US that they are having no issues. You only need to use a VPN to sign up. Once you have your login info, you can connect normally.

Good to know. I thought I'd have to keep using the same VPN setting every time I wanted to connect.

Has anyone tried setting up a eweka account from a US IP address? I have seen it posted on a number of sites that the set up needs to be from a non US IP. I emailed them and they said you can set up a account with a US IP address.

This is a copy of the mail they sent me. I would just like to know if anyone has set up a account with a US IP and if the service is the same?

Dear customer,

Thank you for your request.

We tend to inform you, that you are able to register for our services if you are from the US (or US IP address).

The IP/User connected to the platform, at what time and possible connection errors are stored for about one week for support purposes.

Regarding the downloads we only log the connection data and not what is downloaded by a certain user. For posting we log what message-IDs were posted by which IP/User at what time.

dexter wrote:It used to be the case that you couldn't get to the payment screen from a US IP. Maybe they've changed this policy. Have you tried yourself?

No not yet. Was not sure what was going on so I though I would ask before I tried. I closed my Astraweb account. So I am looking for a new server. If I try from my IP I will post to let people know how it works. I can just use the free 500mb tunnelbear account if need be. And thanks for the reply.

dexter wrote:It used to be the case that you couldn't get to the payment screen from a US IP. Maybe they've changed this policy. Have you tried yourself?

OK I was able to set up a account from a US IP address. And I think I may know what the problem is. After you set your password. You can not click on the payment type. You have to click outside the menus then you can click on payment types and it works fine. But if you only click on the payment type it looks like you can not do anything. At least that's my thinking on that.

A number of things I did not like. They send you a email with what server to use. It does not list a SSL server. I had to find the address and settings in the FAQ area. From what I was thinking it sounded like they have different addresses and they till you what server to use. And even though I have English selected some of the pages where in Dutch. That put me off a little as I was trying to pay at the time. But some of that may be a paypal thing.

And they do not seem to like hard passwords. I set my password and it would not let me use it. I had to reset the password. The new password is only 6 chr's long. I tend to like long 20+ passwords with strange characters. I am going to do some looking into that.

One strange thing and I see where they are going with it and its a nice ideal. When you are looking at how to set things up in Newsclient Examples it has your info in it. Your username and how long the password is that's * out.

So I did some test. I am getting a good speed I only have a 60mbs connection and I was seeing a little latency but not bad and I was getting the full speed I was getting with Astraweb. So I decided to do a test. I have a newsgroup I have never deleted the old headers for. I was pulling some old post from Astraweb about 3000 days old. Getting a lot of missing parts. So with Eweka I decided to pull in post. At 3295 days old I pulled in about 1000 files and got no error’s or missing parts. I have not updated the headers for that area yet. But that impresses me. So me being me I have to do some testing. I am going to pull in a full list of headers for that area I was getting the missing parts from to see if they have the full post.